Hi! Good of you to notice that! We're rolling out Aqualine, an avatar you gain for earning masteries in math missions, to a subset of users. Since Aqualine is not available to everyone yet, we have not made any announcement. But we will be releasing to everyone soon, so hang in there!

Plugin data is scraped from GitHub and vim.org. Usage data is derived from scraping dotfiles repos on GitHub for references to Vim plugins. However, categories and tags are manually curated (and you can help out with that if you wish!).

You're right, GitHub ignores casing but unfortunately we don't. :( This means that when we discover references to GitHub repos that are the same but cased differently, we sadly treat them as different plugins. Opened an issue: #22

Interestingly, the readme comes from github, but the installation from vim.org (which isn't helpful since you list that yourself)?

Ah, that's probably confusing. We should probably not show the vim.org install instructions if there's already an extensive github.md. Issue #21

That's some very interesting feedback. Decreased coupling would definitely be nice. Perhaps we should move to an org on GitHub and split off the scrapers into their own repos. And fleshing out the API some more would be great.

Yeah, tagging is just wiki-based for now... will monitor changes and see how well it works.

Sorting by stars or date would be great. Thanks for all the suggestions!

I apologize that the color scheme is hard for you to read. It's Solarized, a popular color scheme for Vim, so we were hoping it might be recognizable in that respect. Nonetheless I'll look into the contrast issue and consider your suggestion. Thanks!

Sourcing from dotfiles seems to be a more unbiased way of sorting by actual plugin usage than other metrics we considered, such as GitHub stars. Also it turned out to be a good way to automatically discover plugins that are only published on GitHub.